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List of known Esarey-Esery and Rhoads-Esrey letters - click dates to read each letter
DATE |
FROM/TO |
SOURCE (pub/edit/) |
27 June 1814 |
Jesse Esarey to Jonathan D. Esarey |
MEE 1968/MER/ |
20 May 1832 |
Jesse Esrey to Jonathan D. Esarey |
MEE 1968/MER/ |
15 June 1846 |
Amanda Rhoads to Jesse & Hannah Esrey |
MEE 1968/MER/ & SPE 2002 |
Spring 1847 |
Daniel & Amanda Rhoads to Jesse & Hannah Esrey |
MEE 1968/MER/ & SPE 2002 |
25 March 1848 |
Jesse Esrey to Daniel & Amanda Rhoads |
MEE 1968/MER/ |
14 April 1848 |
Elvira Shackelford to Amanda Rhoads |
SPE 2002 |
28 June 1849 |
Amanda Rhoads to Jesse & Hannah Esrey |
MEE 1968/MER & SPE 2002 |
10 February 1850 |
Jesse Esrey to Daniel & Amanda Rhoads |
MEE 1968/MER |
21 August 1850 |
James W. Shackelford to Jesse Esrey |
MEE 1968/MER |
12 January 1851 |
Jesse Esrey to Daniel & Amanda Rhoads |
MEE 1968/MER & SPE 2002 |
10 February 1851 |
Jesse Esrey to Daniel & Amanda Rhoads |
SPE 2002 |
7 December 1851 |
Jesse Esrey to “Mr. Danil Rhoads” |
MEE 1968/E.Rhoads |
28 February 1852 |
Amanda & Daniel Rhoads to Jesse & Hannah Esrey |
SPE 2002 |
10 June 1852 |
Jesse Esrey to Daniel & Amanda Rhoads, and Jonathan and Justin Esrey |
MEE 1968/E. Rhoads |
September 1852 |
Jesse Esrey to Jonathan Davis Esarey |
MEE 1968/MER |
13 January 1853 |
Jesse Esarey to his wife & family |
MEE 1968/MER |
3 March 1853 |
Jesse Esrey to Daniel & Amanda Rhoads |
SPE 2002 |
10 April 1853 |
Jesse Esrey to Daniel & Amanda Rhoads |
MEE 1968/MER & SPE 2002 |
6 June 1853 |
Jesse Esrey to Daniel & Amanda Rhoads |
SPE 2002 |
26 Dec. 1853 |
Amanda Rhoads to Jesse & Hannah Esrey |
SPE 2002 |
13 April 1856 |
Amanda Rhoads to Niles or Septer Esrey |
SPE 2002 |
16 Sept 1857 |
Justin Esrey to Niles Esrey |
SPE 2002 |
Nov. 1858 |
Justin Esrey to Niles Esrey |
SPE 2002 |
17 Jan. 1859 |
Jonathan Esrey to Niles Esrey |
SPE 2002 |
16 July 1859 |
Justin Esrey to Septer Esrey |
SPE 2002 |
August 1859 |
Justin Esrey to Niles Esrey |
SPE 2002 |
1 Sept 1860 |
Justin Esrey to Niles Esrey |
SPE 2002 |
25 Dec. 1864 |
John Esrey to Hannah Esrey |
MEE 1968/MER |
30 Dec. 1866 |
Mary Rhoads to Daniel & Amanda Rhoads |
SPE 2002 |
1873 |
“Relief of the Donner Party” by Daniel Rhoads |
SPE 2002 |
21 Feb. 1910 |
J.J. Esarey to Niles Esrey |
MEE 1968/MER |
1964-1968 |
Mildred Esrey Reynolds to Myra Esarey Evans |
MEE 1968/MER |
Sources
MEE 1968: Myra Esarey Evans “ Logan Esarey: His Ancestors & their Descendants” Posted by permission of Patsy VanKesteren, September 2009.
MER: Mildred Esrey Reynolds “Esrey letters in possession of M. E. Reynolds” pp. 372 – 282L in MEE 1968
SPE 2002: Steve P. Emmanuels “The Rhoads-Esrey letters: 1846-1873” Kings River Press, Lemoore, CA. Posted here by permission of Steve Emmanuels 14 Feb. 2008)
E. Rhoads: Earl Rhoads, San Jose, CA letters provided to Myra Evans Esarey (pp. 372 –282L in MEE 1968).
A guide to Esarey/Esrey individuals who appear in these letters
Jonathon Davis Esarey (1783-1858): Third child of John and Hester Clark Essery. Jonathan was Jesse Esrey’s older brother, who remained in southern Indiana. Jonathan Davis Esarey is the progenitor of all Esarey and all (?) Esry descendants.
Jesse Esrey (1800-1855) and Hannah Forester Esrey (1798-1879) : Youngest child of John and Hester Clark Essery. After the family left Kentucky and settled a few years in Southern Indiana, young Jesse moved on to Knox County, Indiana and then Illinois with John and Hester, as evidenced by the 1814 and 1832 letters in this collection. In Illinois Jesse changed the spelling of his name, served in the Illinois legislature. Between 1823 and 1836, Jesse and Hannah had nine children. Then, in 1840 Jesse and Hannah moved their family to Hardin County, Missouri, where many descendants remain today. Their daughter Amanda married Daniel Rhoads, also of Edgar County, Illinois and, in then, later in the 1840s, Amanda, Daniel, and several of Jesse and Hannah’s older sons moved to California. Two sons were killed in the Civil War, fighting for the Confederacy, and two younger sons ( Niles and Septer) remained in Missouri and raised families there.
Jesse and Hannah’s children:
1 Elvira Esrey (1823-1865), mar. James Henry Shackelford (4 child.) [SPE 2002 identifies the Elvira Shackelford that writes Amanda in 1848 as a niece by Daniel’s sister rather than Amanda’s own sister.]
2 Amanda Esrey (1825-1906), m. Daniel Rhodes (7 child. w/ 4 surviving childhood)
3 James Esrey (1826-1861 died Civil War), m. Sarah Rouse, then Phoebe Blair (2 child.)
4 Justin Esrey (1827- 1900) (aka “Cap”)
5 John Esrey (1828-1888), m. Nancy J. Buckley (11 ch.)
6 Thomas Esrey (1829-1862 died Civil War), m. Sarah Ann Winsett (4 child.)
7 Jonathon Esrey (1831-1904), m. Sarah Ann Winsett (his brother's widow - 4 more child.)
8 Niles Esrey (1835-1910), m. Missouri Ann Stratton (7 child.)
9 Septer Patrick Esrey (1836-1900), m. Mary Rosell, then Char. Jasper, then Frances Hill. (6 child.)
